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At its Dec. 21 meeting, the Oak Park and River Forest High School Board of Education unanimously approved an increase of 4.36%, 3.5% if the value of new property in the district is not considered, in its annual property tax levy.
Oak Park and River Forest High School has hired Oak Park police sergeant Traccyee Love as its new director of campus safety and support. Love will begin working at OPRF Jan.5. She has been a sergeant for the community policing unit since June 2023. Love, a resident of Oak Park, joined the department as a patrol officer in 2011. She served as a patrol officer and a sergeant in that division.Love’s hiring was part of the consent agenda at the Dec. 21 meeting of the OPRF Board of Education.Love has worked closely with OPRF in her role as part of the community policing unit. In 201,7 Love fill...
River Forest Village President Cathy Adduci signed an executive order Dec. 29 that places restrictions on intercity buses, specifically those coming to the village to drop off migrants on their way to Chicago.The order is in response to increased examples of buses dropping off passengers along suburban transit lines without notice and follows precedent set by other Illinois cities, including neighboring Oak Park.
In the 2021-22 school year, 53.5% of Elmhurst School District 205 students passed the ELA portion of the IAR test, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
In the 2021-22 school year, 52.5% of Cass School District 63 students passed the ELA portion of the IAR test, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.